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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36270	A sermon preached before His Majesty on Good-Friday at Whitehall, March 24, 1664/5 by J. Dolben ...	Dolben, John, 1625-1686.	1665 (1665)	Wing D1831; ESTC R5322	28,655	60

a Type of Christ and indeed he was a lively and exact one In him we have a concurrent adumbration of all Christ's Offices The Authority of a King the Spirit and Illumination of a Prophet and though not the Function of a Priest yet the Holiness and Devotion the Care and Zeal for Gods service belonging to that Function Nothing could better represent our King of the Jews in the form of a Servant then David a King chosen by God and anointed by his appointment yet living without power in the time of Saul Nor could any thing foreshew the ill treatment which our Lord found in the days of his humiliation at their hands whom he delivered from more dreadful enemies then Philistins and Gyants of Gath like those disgraces oppressions and persecutions which David endured from Saul whose Battels he had fought As his victories over the enemies of Israel were Types of Christs subduing the powers of darkness His Reigning over the People of God an embleme of Christ his Sons spiritual dominion in the hearts of the Faithful in which sense onely Davids house became sure and his Kingdom perpetual So were the cruelties of Saul the treachery of Doeg and Achitophel the railing and curses of Shimei and the unnatural rebellion of Absalom onely so many prelusions to Herods early attempts on Christs life the slanders blasphemies malitious designs and bloudy Prosecutions of the Jews the treason of Judas and the pernicious wisdom of Caiaphas Nothing more can be added to make the resemblance compleat but this that David was a person most dear to God as being a man after his own heart received the amplest testimonies and assurances of Gods favour the most gracious Promises and Pledges of his lasting sure Mercies Yet no man more severely chastised by his afflicting hand Which makes it a less wonder that God for the great ends of Mercy design'd by that method should give up the Son of his love in whom he declared himself by a voice from heaven to be delighted and well pleased into the hands of evil men And for a complement of his sufferings pour his own wrath due to our sins like fire into his bones This whole Parallel is by David so fully set forth in very many places of the PSALMS that the most acute interpreters are often put to great difficulties how to distinguish the persons and assigne when the Prophet speaks of himself and when of our Saviour and indeed nothing can safely be resolv'd but that both are intended the two cases being so much one that the same words most fitly express them I hope you will forgive me the insisting so long upon this famous Type of our Saviours sufferings I will name no more though it be evident that the best and most renowned men of all Ranks and particularly the PROPHETS who sure had as good right to Gods Temporal promises as any other Jews were vexed tormented imprisoned banished slain to leave a cloud of witnesses attesting this Truth that as Christ exceeded them all infinitely in the excellency of his Person and Dignity of his Office so he was to out-go them onely in the degrees of his afflictions that the merit of his suffrings might be of greater value as being intended to higher purposes Nor will I trouble you after all this with the many Typical Rites and Actions observed very pertinently by others though some of them do not onely adumbrate Christs sufferings in general but point particularly at his Crucifixion As ISAAC ' s carrying the wood whereon he was to lie which in the Antitype is fairly answer'd by Christs carrying his cross The crucified saving Brazen serpent giving health to all that looked up in Faith to it besides a fit declaration and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in St. Chrysostomes expression of Christs curing the deadly fiery bitings of the old Serpent by vertue of his death represented in that figure gives us a further advantageous instance against the Jews that every thing is not accursed which hangeth on a Tree And St. Johns authority is very considerable who applyes the command of not breaking a bone of the Paschal Lamb to this business and his Reason of the Rite that it was intended to leave a Prophetical intimation that Christ our Passover should die a death to which breaking of limbs was ordinarily annexed but yet that the breaking his should by care from Heaven be prevented is much better then Maimoni's weak conjecture that it was onely to comply with the Jews haste For in what haste soever they then were the Wisdom of God is never in haste nor can his Providence be surprized or decree any thing to no purpose After these Typical representations it will be now seasonable to hearken to the voices of the Prophets which are the voice of God and with clearer evidence predict what the other did but tacitely insinuate and adumbrate and we shall find them all with one mouth proclaim the same thing the great and various sufferings and violent Death of Messiah Whom though they do not alwayes name as sometimes they do particularly Daniel tells us MESSIAH shall be cut off and dates his account not to the Birth or Reign but the Death of Messiah the Prince yet they so describe him as that the ancient Jews understood their meaning well enough allowing the reading of Psal 22. 15. and expounding it of Messiah as also Zach. 12. 10. which are both referred to by S. John as Prophecies of Christ's being pierced on the Cross And the latter Rabbins by their pitifull shifts shew clearly that they refuse the Interpretations of their Fathers onely for fear of prejudicing their Hypothesis and therefore strengthen our Arguments while they endeavour to elude their force Out of the great plenty of Prophecies I will select but one for what God hath said once is as infallibly true as if he had said it a thousand times 'T is the 53 Chapter of Isaiah where you may read the contempt and scorn the pains and torments the ignominious and servile Death of Christ so graphically described so fully expressed that you would imagine the Prophet to have been Spectator of the whole Tragedy and retiring from that black Scene while the sense of it was warm and high in him he did 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 dip his Pen into his Mind and transcribe as much as Ink and Paper could delineate from his affections and troubled Soul into his Book I need not enlarge for the Jews are so oppressed with multitude and weight of Evidences for a suffering Messiah that to deliver themselves in this strait they give us a Tale of two Messiahs the first to be afflicted and killed the other to triumph onely and reign And so while one part of their fiction confesseth the sufferings we contend for and the other is affirmed vainly without ground or colour by them they have thereby yielded us the whole Cause And we may safely conclude that since Jesus